"Where did you lose your
cell phone?" The voice on the phone asked me as I reported the loss to the
cell phone insurance company.
"If I knew that, then it
wouldn't be lost."
"You have a point; ok let's
get the other information…"
I had retraced my steps and still
couldn't find it. I even tried calling
my number, but alas, it must have been lying somewhere abandoned and
"vibrating" helplessly. I imagine it waited for someone to answer its
pitiful cries for rescue until eventually it died of lack of energy.
I never did find that phone.
When I find myself spiritually
"alone," I think back on things and I can usually figure out where I
left God. I hadn't really lost Him, I
just walked off without Him. I can simply retrace my steps and rediscover Him.
As with the axe head in this
passage, the worker knew where it was, but he needed help retrieving it. When I can't find God, I can call on Him and
He will respond. Then I can return to
Him, restore our relationship and then carry on in this life together again.
"But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water:
and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed. And the man of God
said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and
cast it in thither; and the
iron did swim. Therefore said he, Take it
up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it." II Kings 6:5-7
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